Tokyo Stage: O'Neill in Japanese

This summer's prize for odd and ag
onizing theatrical experiments goes to Broadway Director Harold Clurman
(Bus Stop, Shot in the Dark). For six days every week since July 15, he
has been directing a Japanese version of Eu gene O'Neill's The Iceman
Cometh.

The genesis of this cultural obstacle course was a 1965 State Department
project, in which Clurman took five U.S. actors to Tokyo and there
staged Long Day's Journey into Night for the edification of Japanese
actors and di rectors. Later, Tokyo's prestigious Kumo (Cloud) theater
company mount ed a Japanese version of the play, which was...